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Locality Name:
Graniteville, Graniteville District (Eureka District), Nevada Co., California, USA


mindat Locality ID: 267700
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-267700.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Graniteville, Graniteville District (Eureka District), Nevada Co., California, USA": 47
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 44

Number of Child Localities: 44
Child Localities:
Ancho Quartz Mine (Ancho Mine; Ancho Claim; Erie Claim; Ohio Claim; Wheeling Lode; Consolidaton Of Ancho And Erie Groups; Oliver And Holland; Dublin Bay Consolidated; Neuralgaline [Neuralgia] And Lane/Holland; Nevada; Wheeling; West Virginia; Nevada Claim
Anderson Mine
Atlantic Occurrence
Azalea Mine (Azalie Mine)
Baltic Consolidated Quartz Mine (Baltic Cons.; Baltic Con Qtz.; Crown Point Claim; Crown Point Extension Claim; Shirley Claim)
Baltimore Consolidated Quartz Mine (Baltimore Cons. Qtz.; Mayflower; Dewey & Baltimore; Keller)
Barron Mine (Barren)
Birchville Mine (Iowa Consolidated; Birchville Claim; Iowa Claim; Commercial Claim; North Commercial Claim; South Commercial Claim; Wisconsin Gold And Silver Claim)
Blue Cloud Consolidated Quartz Mine (Blue Cloud Cons Qtz; Blue Cloud Consolidated)
Cannon Mine
Canton Mine
Celina & Bates Lode Mine (Celina And Bates; Celina Flat Mine)
Culbertson Mine
Dandarine Mine
Dillon Quartz Mine (Dillon Qtz.)
Dublin Bay Consolidated Mine (Dublin Bay Cons.)
Erie Consolidated Lode Mine (Erie Con Lode)
Fountain Head And Eureka Placer (Fountain Head & Eureka Placer)
Gaston Ridge Mine (Gaston; Gaston Ridge Cons.; Gambrinus; Gambrinus & California)
General Miles Quartz Mine (General Miles Qtz.; General Miles)
Georgia Consolidated Placer (Georgia Cons.)
Golden Age Quartz Mine (Golden Age Qtz.)
Hila Placer Mine
Hot Water Mine
I.X.L. Claim
Jim Consolidated Quartz Mine (Jim Consolidated; Jim Mine; Jim Con Qtz; Central & Jim)
Keller Mine (Mayflower Claim; Dewey Claim; Baltimore Claim)
Liberty Group
McCarthey Lode Mine (Dublin Bay Lode)
Montana Placer
Mount Hope Quartz Mine (Golden Age; Mount Hope And Golden Age; Mount Hope Qtz.; Mount Hope Claim; Golden Age Claim)
Mountain View Mine
Next Gambrinus Quartz Mine (Next Gambrinus Qtz.; Next Gambrinus)
Norway Occurrence
Rattlesnake Occurrence [1]
Republic Quartz Mine [1] (National Group; National Quartz Mine; Republic Qtz.)
Rocky Glen Mine (Illinois Consolidated Claim; Illinois Cons.; Stacey Claim; Annie And Russel Ravine Claim; Blue Cloud Claim)
Rocky Glen Mine (Stacey Claim; Annie And Russel Ravine Claim; Blue Cloud Claim)
Spotswood Mine (Spotswoon)
Stacey Quartz Mine (Stacey Qtz.)
Unnamed Cu Occurrence [6]
Washington-Graniteville Mine (Washington-Gran)
Wheeling Lode Mine (West Virginia And Ohio; Wheeling; Wheeling Lode And Mill Site)
Wisconsin Gold & Silver Quartz Mine (Wisconsin Mine)

Latitude: 39°25'16"N
Longitude: 120°44'19"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 39.421111111111,-120.73861111111
AThis mineral is Anthropogenic.
GThis mineral is directly dated.
BThis mineral is reported as having this age.
YThis mineral is using an age reported as an element mineralization period.
OThis mineral is using an age calculated from all data at the locality.
RThe age displayed for this mineral originates from a different, non-child locality.
PThe age displayed for this mineral is the range of ages for this mineral at all of this locality's children.
This mineral's age has not yet been recorded.

This Mineral list contains entries from this locality, including sub-localities. Minerals in bold are reported by mindat.org as occurring directly at this locality, and do not occur at any children (sublocalities) of this locality.

Elements at this locality, including sub-localities: Au Cl Fe O P Pb S Si 

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: 

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality: 
ApatiteCopperNonePyriteQuartzRocksalt

5 IMA Minerals at location:
Galena  (*)Gold  (*)Pyrite  (*)Pyromorphite  (*)Quartz  (*)
Mineral nameStructural GroupsIMA FormulaMax Age (Ma)Min Age (Ma)# of Sublocalities containing mineralLOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids# of localities containing mineral
Galena  (*)RocksaltPbS4165310,165318,165347,16534824243
Gold  (*)CopperAu31165310,165311,165315,165316,165317,165318,165319,165320,165321,165322,165323,165324,165325,165326,165327,165328,165330,165331,165333,165334,165337,165338,165339,165340,165342,165344,165347,165348,165351,165352,16535530554
Pyrite  (*)PyriteFeS25165310,165318,165327,165340,16534739462
Pyromorphite  (*)ApatitePb5(PO4)3Cl11653481725
Quartz  (*)QuartzSiO227165310,165311,165315,165316,165317,165318,165319,165321,165322,165323,165324,165325,165326,165327,165328,165330,165331,165333,165338,165340,165342,165344,165347,165348,165351,165352,16535561156


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